Alright this is my first attempt at blogging. I hope I do it right. We have alot coming up in the next few weeks. This weekend we are going into the studio to record a few songs. We also have are first show on the 4th of November. But I think that stuff has already been covered so how's about I tell a story. This is the story of how reading came about. Flashback to early summer, we'll say late June. I was being very unproductive musically. The starling age(a band I had been playing in) had dismantled. It's not a touchy subject, no real scandal or anything everyone just kinda became involved in other projects and what not. The red-taled hawk was not flying, again for various reasons, and slowpants, well, was just slow I guess. Damian and myself had been goofing around recording stuff on his computer. Think perhaps a working man's neutral milk hotel with bad synthetic drum beats. I'm sorry I made you think about that. Anyway one night I was at a bar seeing a band and ran into Brad White(drummer, pine club). I was bitchin' about how I wasn't really doing much as far as music goes. A few days later his girlfriend Lisa called talking about how she really wanted to get a band going. I thought great, but I really had no idea what was going to happen. We arranged to "jam" one sunday afternoon. I was worried honestly. A little nervous that it might just not work and we would have nothing to play and we would just sit there and be awkward. I played some slowpants songs just for the hell of it and lisa accompanied nicely. We arranged to do it again and this time she busted out all these great keyboard parts. We even wrote a song that day(arranged, abstract). This could be very cool I thought to myself. I called Damian to see if he wanted to merge these little side projects we had going on and he agreed. It was all kinda starting to come together. But we still needed a drummer. That's where my boy Johnny came into the picture. I didn't know him. I heard about him. Brad kept telling me about this drummer that hadn't played with anyone in years but might be willing to try something new. Lisa talked to him and he was willing to give it a shot.
The first time I met him was the first night the four of us practiced together. I left that first night excited. The same way I've left practice every night since. Thanks for taking the time to let me tell a little story. Contact us with questions or comments here at the site and I'll see you November 4th. take it, mat
